Marbles: A Play in Three Acts

by Joseph Brodsky

Book Overview

A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism--the action takes place two centuries after our era--Joseph Brodsky's only play, Marbles, is set in a prison cell that alone provides for the three unities of classic drama: those of time, place, and action. A nightmare rather than a utopia, this play proceeds according to the immanent logic of mental aggravation as its two characters, the inmates Publius and Tullius, examine the tautology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374521166
• ISBN13: 9780374521165
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"